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This tag is for grammar questions, but only if you're not certain what other tag to use. If possible, tag as tense, verb, articles, prepositions, or some other more specific tag or tags instead.
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Helping in expressing myself: "today it was the final exam"
I would say that the best option would be:
The final exam was today.
This would answer the question: "When was the final exam?". If the question was implied (that is, if you wanted to say that the e …
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Using do/does and be(is/are) in the same question
As Jason said, you are correct:
*Do those toys are hers?
Is ungrammatical. The correct form of this question is:
Are those toys hers?
or
Whose are those toys?
When we ask questions in English we …
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How to make Compound Adjectives
You already seem to know what compound adjectives are. They can be created by various combinations: adjective+noun+ed (red-haired), noun+past participle (sun-dried), noun+noun (part-time), number+noun …
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why the use of a singular noun instead of plural?
There are two questions here:
articles
a two-day programme
a three-man committee
the use of the indefinite article refers to the words 'programme' and 'committee' which are singular, and thus allo …
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The meaning of "Having done my homework I will go home."
Have can be either a main verb (with several meanings, one of them is to posses something) or an auxiliary verb which is the case here. It doesn't have any meaning on its own; it is a part of grammati …
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Why "Begin" and not "begins" in the phrase "Let the adventure begin"?
Because the form is imperative + bare infinitive and not present simple. Same as in: “Let him go”. You wouldn’t say “Let him goes”. In both sentences, go and begin are bare infinitives, not 3rd person …
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The way we chose/follow or the path we choose or...?
If I understand correctly, you are looking for a way to phrase the sentence that will follow the one you gave under context.
There are two issues that should be addressed with these phrases:
The …
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